Comment by westurner

Furthermore, there are different types of contributors.

So often the people with divergent thinking and creative problem solving abilities aren't apt to stay focused on one thing for so long.

It's normal for more operations-focused folks to handle the day-to-day on things designed by sometimes flighty, absent-minded, distracted, and unreliable chief engineers such as the aforementioned.

Unless they want to stick with a project, you probably don't want to force those types to do the normal operations daily grind that's so normal to most people.

"We'll take it from here"

"Actually I can code, but on that one [...]"